Andromeda An Ethiopian Princess.

[anansi]

Myth

In Greek mythology, Andromeda was the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, king and queen of the kingdom Ethiopia.

Her mother Cassiopeia boasted that she was more beautiful than the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus and often seen accompanying Poseidon. To punish the Queen for her arrogance, Poseidon, brother to Zeus and god of the Sea, sent a sea monster (Cetus) to ravage the coast of Ethiopia including the kingdom of the vain Queen. The desperate King consulted the Oracle of Apollo, who announced that no respite would be found until the king sacrificed his virgin daughter Andromeda to the monster. She was chained naked to a rock on the coast.

Perseus was returning from having slain the Gorgon Medusa, he found Andromeda and slew Cetus by turning him to stone. He set her free, and married her in spite of Andromeda having been previously promised to her uncle Phineus. At the wedding a quarrel took place between the rivals, and Phineus was turned to stone by the sight of the Gorgon's head (Ovid, Metamorphoses v. 1).

Andromeda followed her husband to Tiryns in Argos, and together they became the ancestors of the family of the Perseidae through the line of their son Perses. Perseus and Andromeda had seven sons: Perseides, Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, and Electryon, and one daughter, Gorgophone. Their descendants ruled Mycenae from Electryon down to Eurystheus, after whom Atreus attained the kingdom, and would also include the great hero Heracles. According to this mythology, Perseus is the ancestor of the Persians.

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Keep in mind that the above may have been set in the Levant but,so why did the Greeks said the main story took place in Ethiopia?? well because during their era Blacks or Ethiopes were dominant in that area and had been for sometime.

Andromeda followed her husband, first to his native island of Serifos, where he rescued his mother Danaë, and then to Tiryns in Argos. Together, they became the ancestors of the family of the Perseidae through the line of their son Perses. Perseus and Andromeda had seven sons: Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, Electryon, and Cynurus as well as two daughters, Autochthe and Gorgophone. Their descendants ruled Mycenae from Electryon down to Eurystheus, after whom Atreus attained the kingdom, and would also include the great hero Heracles. According to this mythology, Perseus is the ancestor of the Persians.



At the port city of Jaffa (today part of Tel Aviv) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.[4]



After Andromeda's death, as Euripides had promised Athena at the end of his Andromeda, produced in 412 BCE,[5] the goddess placed her among the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia; the constellation Andromeda, so known since antiquity, is named after her.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_(mythology)

SO what was the Ethiopian/Black Levantine connection: 
Strabo


quote:

That Syria was once the domain of Cepheus, an Ethiopian king,Tacitus wrote that the Romans believed that the Jews originated in Ethiopia but fled the persecutions of the King. Strabo,even earlier,stressed that people of Western Judea was Africiod: But although the inhibatance are mixed up thus,the most accredited reports in regards to the people of Jerusalem represents the ancestors of the present Judeans as they are called Egyptians.

Thanks to Bro Al-Takruri for the above.

[anastasiaescrava]

Interestingly enough most depictions of her are white..
Gee, I wonder how it got mixed up like that....

[azrur]

Apr 23, 2014 22:32:03 GMT -5 anastasiaescrava said:

Interestingly enough most depictions of her are white..
Gee, I wonder how it got mixed up like that....

people like to portray things as themselves

[anansi]

Well yes, folks heard it's a Greek story so naturally graphic artist and Hollywood feel all the Characters should be "White" especially coming from an age when so called mixing of "races" was deemed down right immoral,the Greeks and Romans showed no such bias,what is disappointing is that such bias is carried over today in terms of movies like Clash of the Titans,Troy and others where they completely excised Mammon,and the latest movie version of the story but like I keep saying Black folks can't complain because today we have more than enough talent and money to get it done.

[anansi]

THE DAYS BEFORE SHEBA
Historians might like to insist that little is known about the founding of the Aksumite Kingdom, but ask the average Ethiopian and they’ll tell you something very different. Aksum, they will say, was founded by none other than the Great-Grandson of Noah, Aksumawi. His new kingdom flourished for a while, but one day Wainaba, a giant snake, 170 cubits long, attacked the city, killed the king and then ruled for 400 dark years. The snake was a foul tempered and dangerous creature and in order to placate him the people of Aksum fed him a diet of milk and virgins. Eventually salvation came in the form of a man named Angabo who, crossing the Red Sea from the land of the Sabeans, offered to kill the serpent in exchange for the throne. The people of Aksum agreed, but rather than fighting the serpent as the Aksumites expected, Angabo proved himself wise and fed the serpent a goat laced in poison.
The kingdom quickly recovered, Angabo married and was borne a daughter. That daughter was named Makeda and on her father’s death she became the woman we today know as the Queen of Sheba.


Read more: www.lonelyplanet.com/ethiopia/history#ixzz2zmXzMIZv

Here is an Axumite version of the story,the theme of the Reptile cropped up all across Africa see link on Bida the Black snake set in Ancient Wagadgu

For the Soninke people, the decline of their empire was due to the legend of Wagadgu, and the rupture of the pact between the empire and the black snake. This happened after the nobles chose Siya Yatabare as the annual sacrifice. She was the most beautiful and “cleanest” virgin girl in that year, but she was also engaged to be married. Her fiancé, Maadi, was the son of Djamere Soukhounou whose unique quality was that he always did what he promised. When Maadi was told him what would happen, that his fiancée would be given to “Bida” - the black snake of Wagadu, he promised Siya that she would not die in the well of Wagadu. Siya tried to convince him that it is her destiny, that he should let her to be the gift to the snake in order to save the Empire, but Maadi refused. Within days, he asked his friend, the blacksmith of his village named Bomou, to sharpen his saber. When the day came, Maadi set on his way in the direction of the well of Wagadu. Siya Yatabare was well dressed and her hairstyle was in plaited with gold. The praise-singer encouraged her, as did her family. When they left, she saw Maadi and they both fell in tears. Siya told him that if he killed the snake, Wagadu would not have any more rain and the empire would be destroyed forever. Maadi refused, saying their destinies are ratified.  He left her and hid himself nearby to wait for the snake.



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[anastasiaescrava]

Apr 24, 2014 1:33:55 GMT -5 anansi said:

THE DAYS BEFORE SHEBA
Historians might like to insist that little is known about the founding of the Aksumite Kingdom, but ask the average Ethiopian and they’ll tell you something very different. Aksum, they will say, was founded by none other than the Great-Grandson of Noah, Aksumawi. His new kingdom flourished for a while, but one day Wainaba, a giant snake, 170 cubits long, attacked the city, killed the king and then ruled for 400 dark years. The snake was a foul tempered and dangerous creature and in order to placate him the people of Aksum fed him a diet of milk and virgins. Eventually salvation came in the form of a man named Angabo who, crossing the Red Sea from the land of the Sabeans, offered to kill the serpent in exchange for the throne. The people of Aksum agreed, but rather than fighting the serpent as the Aksumites expected, Angabo proved himself wise and fed the serpent a goat laced in poison.
The kingdom quickly recovered, Angabo married and was borne a daughter. That daughter was named Makeda and on her father’s death she became the woman we today know as the Queen of Sheba.


Read more: www.lonelyplanet.com/ethiopia/history#ixzz2zmXzMIZv

Here is an Axumite version of the story,the theme of the Reptile cropped up all across Africa see link on Bida the Black snake set in Ancient Wagadgu

For the Soninke people, the decline of their empire was due to the legend of Wagadgu, and the rupture of the pact between the empire and the black snake. This happened after the nobles chose Siya Yatabare as the annual sacrifice. She was the most beautiful and “cleanest” virgin girl in that year, but she was also engaged to be married. Her fiancé, Maadi, was the son of Djamere Soukhounou whose unique quality was that he always did what he promised. When Maadi was told him what would happen, that his fiancée would be given to “Bida” - the black snake of Wagadu, he promised Siya that she would not die in the well of Wagadu. Siya tried to convince him that it is her destiny, that he should let her to be the gift to the snake in order to save the Empire, but Maadi refused. Within days, he asked his friend, the blacksmith of his village named Bomou, to sharpen his saber. When the day came, Maadi set on his way in the direction of the well of Wagadu. Siya Yatabare was well dressed and her hairstyle was in plaited with gold. The praise-singer encouraged her, as did her family. When they left, she saw Maadi and they both fell in tears. Siya told him that if he killed the snake, Wagadu would not have any more rain and the empire would be destroyed forever. Maadi refused, saying their destinies are ratified.  He left her and hid himself nearby to wait for the snake.



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There's a similiar story on here:
Awesome tumblr! 




African folklore

[djehuti]

Mind you, the only thing known geographically about the 'Ethiopia' of Andromeda was that it was a coastal nation with seaports and that its capital was Joppa/Yaffa. There is still some debate as to whether this Ethiopia was in the Levant or in Arabia along the Red Sea or even Nubia on the other side of the Red Sea. There are a few that suggest the country to be Egypt, though that is unlikely since Egypt would likely be distinguished as a nation. It just so happens that the only coastal ancient city bearing the name Joppa/Yaffa is in modern day Israel/Palestine near Tel Aviv and was ancient Phoenicia/Canaan. Also, the myths say that he traveled eastward along the southern coast of Thalassa (the Mediterranean) after leaving Atlas (the titan who asked to be turned to stone with Medusa and became the Atlas mountains) that he traveled along the coast of North Africa and then northeastward supports a Levantine location. What is clear is that the people were black since the Greeks' list King Cepheus II genealogy as descending from Cepheus I who was grandson of Cepheus I who is cousin or brother of Aegyptus (king of Egypt) and Danaus (king of Libya west of Egypt) and children of Libya (Africa). Many Greek and later Roman authors have commented on the dark/black complexion of Andromeda. The romantic work Aethiopica of Heliodorus is about an Ethiopian queen descended from Andromeda's family who upon staring at a white statue (or picture) of Andromeda during conception, gave birth to a white (albino?) daughter whom she gave away in fear that she would be accused of adultery. This daughter subsequently but grew up in Egypt and fell in love with a Greek man whom they went on adventures together.

By the way, this article by Henry L. Gates Jr. gives an excellent history of the whitewash of Andromeda: www.theroot.com/articles/history/2014/02/andromeda_myth_was_she_black.html

To Brada, the common legend of the maiden usually a princess being sacrificed to a 'monster' is actually an inversion of the older religious tradition or order where the monster is actually a sacred beast or animal symbolic of the older religion where the princess is the high-priestess. The hero who represents the new usually more male dominated order "rescues" the princess from this old tradition and brings her into a new one. It's funny that you use the example of the Ethiopian Makeda (Sheba?) since according to the very legends, once the great serpent is slayed she becomes the last queen to rule as sole monarch and after her reign only men could rule. The giant snake of Aksum, Wainaba bears a striking resemblance to Arwa, the giant snake who ruled Punt according to the Egyptian 'Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor'. A similar situation is seen with Wagadu where the serpent is likely a deity and the alleged sacrificed maidens are its priestesses. Or the Hausa legend of Bayajidda which holds that the 7 Hausa Bakwai kingdoms were founded by the 7 sons of Bayajidda a foreign warrior who married the native queen Magajiya Daurama after he rescued her from a monstrous serpent. Interestingly her title 'magajiya' that of the shamanic priestesses who guardian spirits took the form of pythons like those of the mambo of Vodun. Even when women were no longer able to rule as queens in Hausaland, the magajiya still practiced their rites as high-priestesses and shamans until recently with new waves of Islamic suppression.

By the way, that animation of Andromeda doesn't look right to me.

[anansi]

Hi Dj, long time yes I know this is but younger theme however I did not happened on the Hausa version will need to check out more, about the graphics for me it's as good as any other but if you don't mind whats your take on it.

[Tukuler al~Takruri]

Thanks for my propers and forgive me being
too lazy to rework and synthesize all my
earlier posts on Andromeda and Levantine
Aithiopia for ESR.

The Greeks' Aithiopia was never limited to
continental Africa. That is solely a modern
interpretation as is force fitting or trying
to alter Joppa (Tel Aviv) from Canaan to
some place not the Levant.

The Aithiopia of the Andromeda story is
clearly the south Levant without a doubt.
Black people were not and are not limited
to continental Africa.

Apr 23, 2014 3:18:14 GMT -5 anansi said:

Myth

In Greek mythology, Andromeda was the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, king and queen of the kingdom Ethiopia.

Her mother Cassiopeia boasted that she was more beautiful than the Nereids, the nymph-daughters of the sea god Nereus and often seen accompanying Poseidon. To punish the Queen for her arrogance, Poseidon, brother to Zeus and god of the Sea, sent a sea monster (Cetus) to ravage the coast of Ethiopia including the kingdom of the vain Queen. The desperate King consulted the Oracle of Apollo, who announced that no respite would be found until the king sacrificed his virgin daughter Andromeda to the monster. She was chained naked to a rock on the coast.

Perseus was returning from having slain the Gorgon Medusa, he found Andromeda and slew Cetus by turning him to stone. He set her free, and married her in spite of Andromeda having been previously promised to her uncle Phineus. At the wedding a quarrel took place between the rivals, and Phineus was turned to stone by the sight of the Gorgon's head (Ovid, Metamorphoses v. 1).

Andromeda followed her husband to Tiryns in Argos, and together they became the ancestors of the family of the Perseidae through the line of their son Perses. Perseus and Andromeda had seven sons: Perseides, Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, and Electryon, and one daughter, Gorgophone. Their descendants ruled Mycenae from Electryon down to Eurystheus, after whom Atreus attained the kingdom, and would also include the great hero Heracles. According to this mythology, Perseus is the ancestor of the Persians.

link

Keep in mind that the above may have been set in the Levant but,so why did the Greeks said the main story took place in Ethiopia?? well because during their era Blacks or Ethiopes were dominant in that area and had been for sometime.

Andromeda followed her husband, first to his native island of Serifos, where he rescued his mother Danaë, and then to Tiryns in Argos. Together, they became the ancestors of the family of the Perseidae through the line of their son Perses. Perseus and Andromeda had seven sons: Perses, Alcaeus, Heleus, Mestor, Sthenelus, Electryon, and Cynurus as well as two daughters, Autochthe and Gorgophone. Their descendants ruled Mycenae from Electryon down to Eurystheus, after whom Atreus attained the kingdom, and would also include the great hero Heracles. According to this mythology, Perseus is the ancestor of the Persians.



At the port city of Jaffa (today part of Tel Aviv) an outcrop of rocks near the harbour has been associated with the place of Andromeda's chaining and rescue by the traveler Pausanias, the geographer Strabo and the historian of the Jews Josephus.[4]



After Andromeda's death, as Euripides had promised Athena at the end of his Andromeda, produced in 412 BCE,[5] the goddess placed her among the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia; the constellation Andromeda, so known since antiquity, is named after her.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_(mythology)

SO what was the Ethiopian/Black Levantine connection: 
Strabo


quote:

That Syria was once the domain of Cepheus, an Ethiopian king,Tacitus wrote that the Romans believed that the Jews originated in Ethiopia but fled the persecutions of the King. Strabo,even earlier,stressed that people of Western Judea was Africiod: But although the inhibatance are mixed up thus,the most accredited reports in regards to the people of Jerusalem represents the ancestors of the present Judeans as they are called Egyptians.

Thanks to Bro Al-Takruri for the above.

[djehuti]

Apr 30, 2014 13:56:03 GMT -5 Tukuler al~Takruri said:

Thanks for my propers and forgive me being
too lazy to rework and synthesize all my
earlier posts on Andromeda and Levantine
Aithiopia for ESR.

The Greeks' Aithiopia was never limited to
continental Africa. That is solely a modern
interpretation as is force fitting or trying
to alter Joppa (Tel Aviv) from Canaan to
some place not the Levant.

The Aithiopia of the Andromeda story is
clearly the south Levant without a doubt.
Black people were not and are not limited
to continental Africa.

Yes, and if you read the original myth of Perseus there are clues that the area was right next to Africa (Egypt). Also, if you read the Gates article I provided a link to, it explains how Andromeda's black identity is obfuscated. Remember how the psychologically disturbed troll Casterides kept bringing up the fact that Andromeda was chained to a marble rock that she couldn't be distinguished from if she hadn't moved. Euronuts would automatically think marble means white color. Yet there is BLACK marble as well.

black marble


And it is a fact that unlike the northern Mediterranean coasts of Greece where white rock is more common, in the Levant coast there are more black rocks.